Dave Riske
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184 appearances
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jan 2025
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There was a couple of them. I don't know if you know the names, but there was Mike Jackson. He was a closer for a long time in the big leagues. Paul shoe is another reliever. And then Charles Nagy was a starter, but there was there. I had so many good teammates that helped me out with everything. My first year. Cause I was so young. They were all like in their mid thirties.
And I was like, I thought these guys were as old as my dad.
Yes, sir. No, sir.
Oh my God. There were so many, so many good teammates. Yeah.
It was three days later I got to pitch in Cleveland because we played two games in Anaheim and then went back home. And I played the third or whatever, three days later. And I came in with like a 7-1 lead. And my first batter, my legs, you could see me on video, were shaking like crazy. I was a nervous wreck. And I just couldn't even believe I'm in the major leagues.
No.
They just call down, like, get risky. He's in the game. And then I get warmed up.
Yeah.
My legs are shaking on the first pitch. I throw strike one, which is, oh, my gosh. I'm like, yes. I get the next pitch pop-up. It was Mike Bordick was my first hitter. Then my second hitter was B.J. Surhoff. He flies out the left field. And then I kind of calm down a little bit. Then the next hitter comes walking to the plate, and it's Albert Bell. And I'm like, if you remember him? Yeah, yeah.
Oh, my gosh. He was giant. And I'm like, oh, my legs start shaking again. And so I ended up working to a full count and then struck him out looking and the whole place in Cleveland went crazy. And so that was my first.
Yeah.
Derek Jeter was one. Yeah. Yeah. I kept, you know, as funny as I kept hitting him.
He had a game-tying home run off me in New York. But all the other times, I think I got him out a couple times, I think. But he always saw me well. He always got hits off me. And then I would throw an off-speed pitch, and I would hit him. And I hit him back-to-back at bats, and I'm like... we were on the bus and somebody had, was talking to him on the phone or something like, let me talk to him.
Like Jeter, I'm not meaning to hit you. Yeah. Sorry, dude. It's my bad. But yeah, he was, he was impressive.
Um, it was close. I had some close ones.
Yeah. Cause I had a hit. I had a hit, hit a bunch of people on purpose. Um, I got traded from the red Sox to the white Sox and Ozzie Guillen was the manager. My very first outing, one of our players gets hit and they call down and get risky up. And I'm like, I know it cause I'm kind of seven years in then. So I knew what I was supposed to do. Yeah. And, um,
Or is that just an, well, it's kind of, yeah, kind of, but not really kind of unspoken. Yeah. Right. You just kind of know. Yeah. You know, and the bullpen coaches like risky, you know what you're doing. I know exactly what I'm doing. Yeah. I'm going to be in the sky. I went in and first time pitching for the white socks.
First time in the uniform, I just get traded and I got to go in and hit this guy and let's do, I forgot his name, but he was not, he was not small. And I first pitch drilled him. I got thrown out of the game and the manager and the team loved me.
Fine.
That was fun.
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